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STORY: UN / DPRK REAX
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 FEBRUARY 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – UNTV – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
12 FEBRUARY 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2. Various shots, South Korean Foreign Minister Sung-hwan Kim and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon photo-op and meeting
3. Wide shot, South Korean Foreign Minister Sung-hwan walking up to the microphone at Security Council stakeout
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4. Close up, hands taking notes
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sung-hwan Kim, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea:
"The members of the Security Council held urgent consultations to address the serious situation arising from the nuclear testing conducted by the DPRK. The Memebrs of the Security Council strongly condemned this test which is a grave violation of Security Council resolutions 7018 in 2006, 1874 in 2009 and 2087 in 2013 and therefore they continue to exist a clear threat to international peace and security.”
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6. Close up, hands taking notes
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sung-hwan Kim, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea:
“North Korea will be held responsible for any consequences of this provocative act. Stemming from the consistent principle that we do not tolerate a nuclear North Korea the RoK government as President of the UN Security Council for the month of February will cooperate closely with the international community and seek all necessary measures including actions by the United Nations Security Council in order to have North Korea abandon its nuclear ambition.”
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8. Close up, hands taking notes
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9. Wide shot, United States Ambassador Susan Rice walking up to microphone
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10. Close up, hands taking notes
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Rice, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“North Korea continues to violate repeated Security Council resolutions and that in itself makes this different. It is a third test, we’ll await further information on the technical specifications of that test but we would be interested to see whether in fact this indicates a difference in their success level or difference in the quality of the test itself. Whatever the outcome however, this international community, this council has been quite clear, the actions of North Korea are a threat to regional peace and security, international peace and security and they are not acceptable, they will not be tolerated and they will be met with North Korea’s increasing isolation and pressure under United Nations sanctions.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. Cutaway, delegates
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"I strongly condemn Pyongyang’s reckless act, which shows outright disregard for the repeated call of the international community to refrain from further provocative measures. The test is a clear and grave violation of the relevant resolutions of the Security Council."
17. Cutaway, delegates
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"The authorities in Pyongyang should not be under any illusions that nuclear weapons will enhance their security. To the contrary, as Pyongyang pursues nuclear weapons, it will suffer only greater insecurity and isolation. I am encouraged by the swift and overwhelming international condemnation of this wanton act."
19. Cutaway, delegates
20. Wide shot, Security Council
The UN Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (12 February) strongly condemned the nuclear test carried out earlier this morning by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), warning that it constituted a threat to international peace and security.
The test occurred as South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan was in New York, where he was due to meet with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and chair an unrelated meeting of the Security Council today. The Republic of Korea holds the rotating presidency of the Council for the month of February.
After an emergency closed-door session of the Security Council convened in response to the test, the foreign minister read a press statement to reporters in which the Council unanimously condemned the nuclear test, and said the Council would begin working “immediately” on a new resolution.
Speaking in his national capacity, Sung-hwan went on to say that North Korea would be “held responsible for any consequences of this provocative act” and his country would push the Security Council for actions to “have North Korea abandon its nuclear ambition.”
Also speaking to the press and responding to a question as to what made this test different to the DPRK's two previous nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, United States Ambassador Susan Rice said that “North Korea continues to violate repeated Security Council resolutions and that in itself makes this different.”
She said the United States was awaiting further information on the technical specifications of the test to see “whether in fact this indicates a difference in their success level”. But she stressed that “whatever the outcome”, the actions of North Korea were a threat to regional and international peace and security, and that they were “not acceptable, they will not be tolerated and they will be met with North Korea’s increasing isolation and pressure under United Nations sanctions”.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a statement he read out to the Security Council prior to an unrelated meeting, also condemned the test, describing it as a “reckless act”. He welcomed the “swift and overwhelming international condemnation of this wanton act".
Ban warned the authorities in Pyongyang that they shouldn’t “be under any illusions that nuclear weapons will enhance their security”, but that “to the contrary, as Pyongyang pursues nuclear weapons, it will suffer only greater insecurity and isolation”.
According to media reports citing the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the Government of DPRK conducted its third, long-threatened nuclear test earlier today.
A test would be a violation of sanctions imposed on DPRK by the Council following nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, including a ban on the import of nuclear and missile technology. The sanctions were further tightened last month in a unanimous decision by the Council after DPRK reportedly launched a long-range Unha-3 rocket from its west coast in December 2012.
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